Why do we laugh when we’re tickled | Greg Foot | Ask Head Squeeze

To kick off #AskHeadSqueeze Thursdays, Greg Foot is answering a great question from YouTuber James the Weirdo who asked us to ’Explain why tickling and pressure points do the funny things that they do’. Greg answers that and many more questions in this video! 00:29 What is a tickle? When you’re touched, the nerve endings under your epidermis (top layer of skin) send electrical signals to the brain to be interpreted. When we’re tickled the somatosensory cortex picks up the signals to do with pressure, but